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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts: 1
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Not a laid out argument, complete with sources and logical conclusions. This is anecdotal, speculative, and biased information.
Serious note : Love your perspective about the old reddit I’m always curious to know what made internet what it was. I wonder if that’ll happen again.
My favorite was old days of Reddit you’d be skewered for posting a .jpg instead of a .png of the image had text.
JPG should be killed off. We don't need a lossy image format anymore were not on dialup.
heard of 3g? theres better compression out there now anyways
Asking what's the difference got a response about three paragraphs long.
I wrote some of them.
I also remember constant reminders to vote on the quality of the post, not if you agree or not.
It's not and that's because it's bad for Reddit's business model in the short term. If you zoom out this is exactly why reddit is on a nose dive over the last 3 years. More. Shit. Content.
Kinda pain in the ass to add links and formatting on a phone which most of us use. Early days of reddit was all Desktops.
/r/askhistorians was the last bastion of this approach. I loved that sub and really hope they migrate to a lemmy soon.
yea that reminds me when facebookk first came out and it was only for college, my friends would post stuff like that
I appreciate this take, and I strive to make intelligent conversation here on Lemmy.
I only joined reddit like a year or so ago and have recently ditched it. I was never a fan of someone just spamming links to studies and condescending to me while doing so. I think people use links to sources as a way to control conversations. Or at least, that's all I ever saw it used as.